State Information Commissioner S. Muthuraj has recommended to the Election Commission of India (ECI) and the Tamil Nadu State Election Commission to make available in public domain the contribution of elected representatives for nation building since Independence.
He was passing orders in a petition filed under the Right to Information Act, 2005, seeking voluminous data on the payment of property tax in the jurisdiction of the Greater Chennai Corporation. He said when petitioners, who invoked the Act for information in larger public interest and to strengthen the democracy, were asked whether they cast their vote in the last elections, some replied in the negative saying politicians were flawed and untrustworthy.
